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	'<{title}>' => 'Horror',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			What legends of horror are special about my culture?
			Long story short, I&apos;m not sure.
			I don&apos;t read much horror.
		</p>
		<p>
			Popular culture in my area probably has several interesting horror stories, but I&apos;ve never been a part of pop culture.
			Pop culture pretty much slips under my radar and goes mostly unnoticed by me.
			I could rattle off some pop culture horror titles my sister enjoys, but I haven&apos;t read any of them and while they&apos;re a part of the pop culture of the area, they&apos;re not in any way part of my own culture.
			I don&apos;t have television or radio at home, and I don&apos;t read titles that don&apos;t allow derivatives (except when assigned as school).
		</p>
		<p>
			Instead, I&apos;m a part of free culture.
			I read works that are under a {$a['CC BY']} or {$a['CC BY-SA']} license, or are so old that they&apos;ve fallen out of copyright in my country (that is, works from before 1923).
			But while pop culture bombards people with titles and tells them to go pay the publishers, publishers that rip off the artists that wrote the works, free culture doesn&apos;t tend to get the same level of advertising.
			I&apos;d need to actively seek horror titles to come in contact with them, and I haven&apos;t read any horror in a great, long while.
			The only horror title I can remember reading was the short story, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
			It was a great story, and I suppose the most horrifying part was the thought of losing oneself.
			Henry Jekyll, for those who haven&apos;t read the story, became increasingly consumed by Edward Hyde, until Jekyll no longer existed.
			Losing myself is a thought that I find scary, but the people of my culture, free culture, is a a varied lot.
			We&apos;re not bound by location, and we have a lot of very different thought processes.
			I can&apos;t speak on behalf of all of us as to what we find scary.
		</p>
		<p>
			I chose to read The Monkey&apos;s Paw, a story I&apos;m pretty sure I read long ago in middle school, but I&apos;ve long since forgotten the details of.
			I thought I&apos;d recalled the parents wanting to put their child, resurrected and in pain, out of their misery, but that wasn&apos;t really the reason for wishing their child dead again.
			The resurrected child is never actually seen (Jacobs, 1902), and is wished away again out of fear.
			It&apos;s entirely possible that in middle school, I didn&apos;t read the original that I read today, but a derivative version of the story.
			In any case, The Monkey&apos;s Paw appeals to a fear of the unknown and a fear of consequences.
			It also appeals to a fear of altering fate, which while I don&apos;t share this fear, is a very real fear for some people.
			Many people believe there&apos;s some sort of finely-tuned, divine plan that our lives enact, so it makes sense that some believers would fear the results of forcing reality to deviate from that plan.
			It seems that the monkey&apos;s paw isn&apos;t by design malicious, but because messing with fate always has negative consequences (according to the story), all wishes granted by the paw will necessarily cause heartache and pain.
		</p>
		<p>
			I went to the library to check out a copy of Dracula today at the local library to read on my breaks at work this week, in an effort to get another horror title under my belt.
			I hear Dracula is a classic.
			The library&apos;s virtual card catalogue is lacking in information though, so I ended up with Frankenstein, at the suggestion of the librarian.
			Another classic, and one I&apos;m told isn&apos;t properly represented in pop culture.
			I&apos;m told Frankenstein&apos;s monster actually has intelligence and a personality.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h2>References:</h2>
			<p>
				Jacobs, W. W. (1902, September). The Monkey&apos;s Paw. Retrieved from <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/295845/mod_book/chapter/157773/WW%20Jacobs-The%20Monkeys%20Paw.pdf"><code>https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/295845/mod_book/chapter/157773/WW%20Jacobs-The%20Monkeys%20Paw.pdf</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
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